For background on how the map was made (and its flaws), see the relevant blog entry.
Keon | rare: scattered. Ir. Mac Eoghain. More usually MacKeon, q.v. |
Keown | fairly numerous: Fermanagh, Down etc. MacLysaght has given Ó Ceotháin in Fermanagh, but the general conclusion is that it is one of the many synonyms of the basic Mac Eoghain, which appears as Magone, MacCone, MacCune, MacEwen, MacGeown. |
Mac Eoghain | Mac Keon, Owens: líonmhar: Lár na Tíre ach go h-áirithe. I Sligeach dóibh ach tá meascadh anois le Mac Eoin. Tá cur síos cuimsitheach ar an sloinne seo ag Mac Giolla Iasachta ina leabhar "Irish Families". |
Mac Eoin | Quite numerous: Dublin, Galway etc. Ir.Lang. See Mac Keon, Owens. |
Mac Eoin | Mac Keown & rl: an-líonmhar i gCúige Uladh. Tháinig Muintir Bisset ó Albain go h-Aontroim sa 13 céad agus ghlacadar chucu an sloinne Mac Eoin; ach ós rud é go raibh Eoghan agus Eoin an-choiteann mar ainmneacha pearsanta, d'fhéadfadh an sloinne éirí in aon áit - féach an comh-ainm Sasanach, Johnson. IF & SGG. |
MacGeown | numerous: Armagh-Down-Tyrone-Antrim- Monaghan-Louth. Ir. Mag Eoghain. From first name Eoghan. See also Mac Keown. |
MacKeon | numerous: all areas, especially Midlands & Connacht. Ir. Mac Eoghain, from old first name Eoghan (yew-born), or Mac Eoin (John). See Mac Keown. |
MacKeown | Very numerous: Ulster generally, Louth etc. Ir. Mac Eoin (Ulster). As Mac Keon. |
DEDs where MacKeown and a second surname are found together
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